Connecticut Children's

Overview

Mission

Connecticut Children’s is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. Families, we know your kids take comfort in kindness. They look for it, and so do we. It fuels us, supports us, and helps us continue to go beyond imagination to care for all of you. That’s why, at Connecticut Children’s, we live by the **Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. As Connecticut’s only health system 100% dedicated to kids, we strive to create an environment where we all feel respected, a sense of belonging, and empowered to be the best we can be in service to our mission and each other. We stand with health systems across Connecticut and the Connecticut Hospital Association: View the Connecticut Hospital Association statewide Kindness Code of Conduct.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

Distribution model

Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 62
• Transparency & Controls: 73
• Accountability: 92
• Sustainability: 55
• Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• What they do: 1 operating location identified
• Where the money goes: 68.4% of revenue deployed · 71.5% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 20 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $436.4M in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $2.1M · 41 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
• Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $205.6M reported
• Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
• Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 21 filed money-flow records
• Related organizations: 14 filed related-organization links
• Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
• People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
• Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.